6/29/09: Making time pool party was just eh. There wasn't even tether ball. Pools and weird giraffe skin (thanks to Andy, I know what to call it now) dont go together. The music has always been bad so I can't complain about that really. But going to a party and feeling like you have no shot at the ladies was the worst. Where did the game go?
Good news on the staph infection front. Namely, bartering for prescriptions for antibiotics. My dad smokes cigars with a guy who is willing to trade services. How cool is that. Fuck insurance. I think I am helping him move, which I am pretty awesome at, but mostly in conjunction with Jason (you need two people who work together to move most stuff), but it doesn't matter. Hanging out and moving some stuff instead of 200 dollars a month? ok.
Me and Jay have been playing soooooo much tennis. Like 4 hours a day sometimes. Its awesome. Sports. obv. But I would like new people to play. I am looking into joining a tennis league (pretty sure its called something else). Perks might or might not include meeting girls with rich parents, career opportunities, learning how to pull off silly outfits, etc. Maybe I am making it up, but do you know any thugs who play tennis?
Crushing insecurity about pizza delivery livelihood tonight out of nowhere. Enough to get a day job? eh. .... so scared of it. so who knows. how do you even get one? But I don't like the feeling at all. School is such a racket, it would be awesome to go back and a nightmare to give them one cent.
Sorry about this new kind of sentence I made up. I just realized it. At least I instinctively knew to lower case the first letter when i am just making fragments.
Monday, June 29, 2009
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Getting new things and getting "it"
6/25/09: For a do nothing day, lots of awesome things happened. I (shock of shocks) did some retail shopping (well, Buffalo exchange, but it felt like the real deal to me) and bought some joker-purple jeans and some white ones too. Me and my brother actually did so manly work in preparation for berfday. Oh, btw, I have a back door now. Jealous? Then, at Home Depot, there was a sign about some promotion and how if the cashier didn't mention it you get a free coke. But no one in front of me in line said anything. I must admit that I was a little bit nervous about bringing it up and didn't know when was the right time. Like, can't she just say that she was about to tell you. So I waited until I was walking away. She...was...not...happy. I asked her if she had to pay for it herself and she said yes. Then said no. So I have no idea, but I got free soda which is pretty much unbeatable. I think coke even had commercials for awhile where the whole premise is someone who gives away coca-cola and how that makes everyone love them and life.
Bought fancy condoms today. A little bit scared, because what if they are super awesome and then I can't go back to cheap regular ones. I am trying to maintain a doable lifestyle.
Sports: A nadal forehand spins 80 times before it touches the ground. Its spinning 18 times as fast as its moving!!! I can't even imagine it in my head if I try to slow down the ball and make a picture. Like the only way I can even pretend is if I keep the ball completely still and have it spin slowly.
More sports: U-S-A!!!! U-S-A!!! If you don't know what this means, you can can send back your patriot card immediately please. You're aren't necessarily a terrorist (does this mean the government reads my blog now?) but you aren't a good person either. We probably have no chance against Brazil, but to be honest, we didn't even belong in this game to begin with.
Keeping up with the blogs: Siobhan Harper has a blog. Don't ask, never read it. I just think its funny because its called something like Her Majesty of Sarcasm or something. Which is the opposite of Siobhan Hagan super earnest blog about the death of sincerity and how to help people in a broken world. This is a pretty dumb point because I wouldn't be bringing it up if they were two Kristinas or whatever, but give me a break.
Bought fancy condoms today. A little bit scared, because what if they are super awesome and then I can't go back to cheap regular ones. I am trying to maintain a doable lifestyle.
Sports: A nadal forehand spins 80 times before it touches the ground. Its spinning 18 times as fast as its moving!!! I can't even imagine it in my head if I try to slow down the ball and make a picture. Like the only way I can even pretend is if I keep the ball completely still and have it spin slowly.
More sports: U-S-A!!!! U-S-A!!! If you don't know what this means, you can can send back your patriot card immediately please. You're aren't necessarily a terrorist (does this mean the government reads my blog now?) but you aren't a good person either. We probably have no chance against Brazil, but to be honest, we didn't even belong in this game to begin with.
Keeping up with the blogs: Siobhan Harper has a blog. Don't ask, never read it. I just think its funny because its called something like Her Majesty of Sarcasm or something. Which is the opposite of Siobhan Hagan super earnest blog about the death of sincerity and how to help people in a broken world. This is a pretty dumb point because I wouldn't be bringing it up if they were two Kristinas or whatever, but give me a break.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Two awesome things and yet another section
Thing one: Magic cards circa 2002. The have mirrodin drafts online as a promotion the last two weeks or so. The format is just so awesome. Me and rob noticed instantly that modern limited is way too fast. The creatures are just too big; you have no time to set anything cool up. If they play a two and three drop, you simply have to kill them or play an equally huge guy right away. In Mirridon block, the only way to get in for more than 2 is to equip a guy, a play that takes timing, combinations, and interactivity because they can blow up your artifact or your dude and change everything. Lots of time you do things like play t2 v. morningstar/spawning pit, t3 pearl shard and just use your time to set up complicated and interactive board states. Its awesome and fun limited magic, almost every game. Even the bombs are so interactive. You beat them all the time, even the best ones. Anyway, formats in which the games go to turn 12 are awesome. And mirrodin is so much better than a base set, because the cards are so interesting and their are lots of combinations.
Thing two: convincing your brother to play tennis after work so instead of just going home and doing electronic things, you get to play sports!!! Also, pretty excited to watch USA get outclassed against Spain tomorrow.
Speaking of sports, new suspense/question but wait for the answer section: In a typical baseline rally, how many full rotations of topspin does a R. Nadal forehand spin? To be clear, the ball is traveling about 100 mph and it takes about one full second before it lands on the side of the court. The answer next time.
Thing two: convincing your brother to play tennis after work so instead of just going home and doing electronic things, you get to play sports!!! Also, pretty excited to watch USA get outclassed against Spain tomorrow.
Speaking of sports, new suspense/question but wait for the answer section: In a typical baseline rally, how many full rotations of topspin does a R. Nadal forehand spin? To be clear, the ball is traveling about 100 mph and it takes about one full second before it lands on the side of the court. The answer next time.
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Tagged
Things I never do:
1. Buckle my seat belt.
2. Get up before noon.
3. Floss (I tried for a spell, but it is a hard habit to form)
4. Exercise
5. Call the one person who needs calling
Things I always do:
1. Listen to NPR.
2. Compete/fight/argue/act contrary
3. long
4. read magic the gathering websites at or near midnight, when they update
5. go nuts and do lots of chair dancing in my car when one of my many jamz happens. This is a constant source of awkwardness since I mostly drive around in a big circle surrounded by pedestrians who know me.
Things I sometimes do:
1. Earnestness (I know, gross)
2. Eat like a King.
3. blog
So this guy on Magic online has been hounding me because he is starting a website and he wants me to provide content. He says he will pay me so I think I might write a few articles for him and see if it works out. I am kind of excited about it I guess. More so about being able to write that are just purely technical because the readership is focused than about maybe becoming Internet famous. I think I might write about how to learn from other games, which is kind of a rich topic, probably for the same reason we all try to learn how to live by observing others. Have to remember to have Thad introduce me to the Go Master he just befriended.
Tomorrow might be a big day but for all the wrong reasons. Off to the clinic to try to get some antibiotics then retail for father's day and domestic things that get depleted when I leave the house in my brother's hands. Then backdoor fixing appointments in preparation for birthday party. Then softball. Then, if I am really brave, maybe I can do the thing I have been too chickenshit to do for the last two nights. Since when do I get really really nervous about girls? Its so silly and it drives me nuts that I don't have enough poise to get what I want in life. I do enough self sabotage as it is without also not having the resources of faculty required to obtain that which, at least in theory, has the potential to give me a sliver of calm. [new question: who write sentences like that?]
1. Buckle my seat belt.
2. Get up before noon.
3. Floss (I tried for a spell, but it is a hard habit to form)
4. Exercise
5. Call the one person who needs calling
Things I always do:
1. Listen to NPR.
2. Compete/fight/argue/act contrary
3. long
4. read magic the gathering websites at or near midnight, when they update
5. go nuts and do lots of chair dancing in my car when one of my many jamz happens. This is a constant source of awkwardness since I mostly drive around in a big circle surrounded by pedestrians who know me.
Things I sometimes do:
1. Earnestness (I know, gross)
2. Eat like a King.
3. blog
So this guy on Magic online has been hounding me because he is starting a website and he wants me to provide content. He says he will pay me so I think I might write a few articles for him and see if it works out. I am kind of excited about it I guess. More so about being able to write that are just purely technical because the readership is focused than about maybe becoming Internet famous. I think I might write about how to learn from other games, which is kind of a rich topic, probably for the same reason we all try to learn how to live by observing others. Have to remember to have Thad introduce me to the Go Master he just befriended.
Tomorrow might be a big day but for all the wrong reasons. Off to the clinic to try to get some antibiotics then retail for father's day and domestic things that get depleted when I leave the house in my brother's hands. Then backdoor fixing appointments in preparation for birthday party. Then softball. Then, if I am really brave, maybe I can do the thing I have been too chickenshit to do for the last two nights. Since when do I get really really nervous about girls? Its so silly and it drives me nuts that I don't have enough poise to get what I want in life. I do enough self sabotage as it is without also not having the resources of faculty required to obtain that which, at least in theory, has the potential to give me a sliver of calm. [new question: who write sentences like that?]
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Who's the Boss?
6/11/09: How famous is your mom? Probably not as famous as mine is going to be in like 6 months when she is on a reality show with Tony Danza!!!! Apparently he wants to be a school teacher or something and has a new show and my mom is going to be his coach and is going to be in the classroom with him showing him how it is done. Stay tuned about it. My mom is being a little bit lame and keeps talking about being worried that her kids won't learn as much but I am trying to convince her that being a little bit famous is the most important thing in the whole world.
I am pretty upset about damage no longer going on the stack. If you know what this is, come and talk to me about it because I need to get it off my chest that as soon as I get on the train they make my game into Pokemon. It is really pretty sad. Anyone have any suggestions for a new game? Actually, it kinda seems like too much work. Good luck to anyone ptqing this weekend and shame on you to everyone in my life has given up on playing the game and seeing the world because it is obv doable if I made it happen.
I am pretty upset about damage no longer going on the stack. If you know what this is, come and talk to me about it because I need to get it off my chest that as soon as I get on the train they make my game into Pokemon. It is really pretty sad. Anyone have any suggestions for a new game? Actually, it kinda seems like too much work. Good luck to anyone ptqing this weekend and shame on you to everyone in my life has given up on playing the game and seeing the world because it is obv doable if I made it happen.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Mission Accomplished: No Sun Burn
6/10/09: Honolulu is a tourist trap. I know what you are thinking. Just stop it already. But wait... the beach, the zillion pretty Japanese women, surfing? Nope. Those things are real but its mostly retail, awful restaurants, jaywalking tickets, gigantic tourists in not enough clothes, and fascist swimming pool rules (every pool we could find closed at seven. almost as if the hotel gets a kickback from sunburn itself). At least the ocean was only off limits from 2am to 5am, an opening time we put to the test a few times. Unfortunately I was the only one brave enough to face the killer sharp rocks and heavy surf beyond the kiddie barriers they had erected in the water. Drunk and lonely and salty and contemplative in the tropics watching the sun come up? Yes please I guess but i would have settled for a vacation sweetheart.
The most fun I had was playing basketball because it was the only time I got to hang out with real Hawaiians. They are very short, they love pot, (which was weird, because it seems like it would be hard to import and the Honolulu PD is stacked. Like 10 to a block, bikes, cops on surfboards [not kidding], motorcycles, hummers. stacked.) they all have this funny laugh which is simultaneously warm and very shy. They cover their mouths when they laugh, even for raucous humor or sick burns, even teenage boys who play basketball and wear fubu or whatever. Did you know that basketball is very intense athletic activity? I forgot. But my teams won every time, even though I am terrible. Go defense, rebounding, setting picks. Even on vacation, I can't seem to develop a lower gear.
Magic cards went pretty awesome, but I knew they would. My deck was the only real choice, and it performed pretty well, despite me giving it to everyone who asked. I only lost to double and triple mulligans, insane cascade chains, and once to the mirror [which really isn't the mirror at all because they have terrible cards that die to Bit. Blast but are awesome against me.] I am so much better at limited than everyone, but that is probably because I draft ten times as much as they do. I even dominated at money draft, which was a first. Long story short, 38th place is almost 800 bucks, plus an invitation to Austin, which is a cheap plane ticket and apparently a fun town. The bad part is that there is no reason to play magic cards right now. So the agenda has become threefold for the rest of summer.
1) parlay fixing of back door into cleanup and grill buying into massive birthday party softball bbq.
2) continued self improvement accumulating into employment at company of distinction. I get a feeling this one isn't going anywhere.
3) dates with dream girl. Lately, actually dream girl. None worth telling though. They are mostly just really nice. It always feels weird in the morning though because I'm not really that guy. How dumb is it that I get embarrassed all by myself? Like I have this notion of myself that needs protection from the invastion that is the things i want.
The most fun I had was playing basketball because it was the only time I got to hang out with real Hawaiians. They are very short, they love pot, (which was weird, because it seems like it would be hard to import and the Honolulu PD is stacked. Like 10 to a block, bikes, cops on surfboards [not kidding], motorcycles, hummers. stacked.) they all have this funny laugh which is simultaneously warm and very shy. They cover their mouths when they laugh, even for raucous humor or sick burns, even teenage boys who play basketball and wear fubu or whatever. Did you know that basketball is very intense athletic activity? I forgot. But my teams won every time, even though I am terrible. Go defense, rebounding, setting picks. Even on vacation, I can't seem to develop a lower gear.
Magic cards went pretty awesome, but I knew they would. My deck was the only real choice, and it performed pretty well, despite me giving it to everyone who asked. I only lost to double and triple mulligans, insane cascade chains, and once to the mirror [which really isn't the mirror at all because they have terrible cards that die to Bit. Blast but are awesome against me.] I am so much better at limited than everyone, but that is probably because I draft ten times as much as they do. I even dominated at money draft, which was a first. Long story short, 38th place is almost 800 bucks, plus an invitation to Austin, which is a cheap plane ticket and apparently a fun town. The bad part is that there is no reason to play magic cards right now. So the agenda has become threefold for the rest of summer.
1) parlay fixing of back door into cleanup and grill buying into massive birthday party softball bbq.
2) continued self improvement accumulating into employment at company of distinction. I get a feeling this one isn't going anywhere.
3) dates with dream girl. Lately, actually dream girl. None worth telling though. They are mostly just really nice. It always feels weird in the morning though because I'm not really that guy. How dumb is it that I get embarrassed all by myself? Like I have this notion of myself that needs protection from the invastion that is the things i want.
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